Hi Bob



 FM> One more reason - some early viruses tried to kill COMMAND.COM

 FM> in the root directory, weren't smart enough to look at COMSPEC.



 BL>   What's COMSPEC?



A useful trick for floppy-only network workstations. They read

command.com from the floppy, log on to the network, then set

Comspec to a copy of command.com on the fileserver, so a floppy

read is no longer needed every time the command processor is

reread.



Cheers



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